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One of the most significant astrological shifts to take place this year is about to change the direction of our individual and collective evolution over the course of the next 18 months.
July 17, 2023 brings a displacement of the lunar nodes from the Taurus-Scorpio axis, where they have been since January 2022, to the Aries-Libra axis, where they will remain until January 2025. He invites us to cultivate a new relationship. different with authenticity, courage, action, desire and individuality.
What are the lunar nodes?
In astrology, we look to the lunar nodes for information about our purpose, soul growth, destiny, and evolution. Like fate itself, lunar nodes are not tangible objects. Rather, they are two mathematical points in space delineated by where the Moon’s orbit intersects the Sun’s apparent path, or ecliptic.
The north node represents the direction in which we are evolving individually and collectively. It is located in the zodiac sign opposite the south node, which represents what we are releasing. Our individual purpose is influenced by the location of the lunar nodes at our birth, and our shared destiny is defined by the movements and cycles of the lunar nodes at the present time.
The signs that dominate the lunar nodes are the same signs that govern the eclipses that occur during those 18 months. These astrological events mark the beginning of fated opportunities and fate-bound invitations.
What the North Node in Aries and the South Node in Libra mean for your sign 2023
The nodes work with opposite signs to each other, which means that a movement towards one direction is a natural movement away from the opposite direction. Furthermore, each zodiac sign contains a primary or lower expression and an evolved or higher expression.
As the north node shifts to Aries and we are invited to explore the higher expressions and potentials of this fiery sign, we naturally move away from the lower or more primal expressions of Libra, which are found in the south node.
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, born from the all-encompassing awareness of All That Is. It is our introduction to a separate self, an individual self, a “me.” You are a fiery zodiac sign, fueled by inspiration, passion, desire, and direction. Aries is here to start, wake up, create and forge a new path. You need freedom, independence, and empowerment to move where you are led, create where you are inspired, and act on your innate knowledge.
As an archetype, Aries exists within each of us. As the north node shifts and travels through this sign, we are invited to reach into our reserves of courage. The courage to be totally and independently you. The courage to claim your desires and take action towards your vision. The courage to say yes to yourself, even when it means saying no to others.
Sitting across the axis in the south node is Libra. If Aries is the Self, Libra is the Other. It is association, collaboration and the other perspective. Libra harmonizes the environment through intuitive adaptation, always very aware of what others need at any moment to reach a state of peace, harmony and equity.
Although Libra has the potential to contain a beautiful medicine of diplomacy, grace, and elegance, our journey to the realm of the south node highlights the potentially damaging dimensions of the air sign. These are the aspects that, as a collective, we are ready to heal and evolve. These include the need to be so in tune with another that we give up the needs of the Self. Furthermore, we need peace and harmony so much that we fall into unhealthy pleasure, passivity, and looking away from what is not peaceful but still. requires our attention.
The next 18 months are an exploration of where and how we tend others to the point of losing Self, where and how we adapt to the environment to the point of losing Self, and where and how we engage with desires and form. . who call our name so that another shines.
During this time, fears and beliefs around not being capable as an individual Self come to the surface so that we can heal them. Also, aspects of Being that we may have put aside or ignored come to the fore and remind us of what matters and what we deserve.
This time is offering healing to fears of what others think of us, and where and how we allow the perceptions of others to rule, control and hinder us. It asks us to bring love to the parts of ourselves that we have given up on behalf of another so that we can revive these parts of ourselves and come to the fullness of our individual being.
your invitation
Astrology continually asks us to change, whether through the daily movements of the Moon, the seasonal changes of the Sun, or the planetary bodies changing once every few years. In this way, he imitates life. We need to continue to find new opportunities, invitations and challenges, which is reflected in the way the Earth changes through its seasons, the way our bodies change, age and deteriorate. All we know is change, whether subtle or overt, silent or loud, internal or tangible. Our existence is that of change.
There is a freedom that comes with reclaiming yourself, your path, your passions, and your needs, and this is the invitation of the north node in Aries. To channel more of your life towards yourself, your desires and your fulfillment.
There is a focus on self throughout these next 18 months, and a healing of the beliefs, hurts, patterns, and outside noise that tries to tell us that this focus is selfish. We each have our own path. We each have our own passions. We each have our own needs. We each have our own worlds that live within us and dreams that call us to them. This chapter is a reminder that your path, passions, needs, dreams, and all that you are deserve time, attention, energy, and focus.
As you tend to the fires of passion that burn within you and no one else, that fire begins to grow. feeds you It motivates you. It inspires you. guide you. And it drives you forward. It burns so bright and beautiful that we can’t resist going through with it. And it burns so bright you can’t sit still. You must move towards the dreams that are for you. And you must do it yourself.
The change of the lunar nodes can be understood esoterically as a force that invites us to our destiny and purpose, or it can be considered as the inevitable and obvious movement, change and growth of life over time. Either way, they represent a new theme, a new focus of awareness, and a new direction of growth that we are exploring, whether we are aware of it or not.
Learn more about the influence of astrology on your life, including astrological events, Moon, Sun and Moon cycles and rising signs, how journaling can help you connect with current influences, and more with Jordane dizzy in Girl and her Moon.
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jordan marie is the founder of girl and her moon, a platform and community that explores the Soul through the lens of astrology, tarot, and energy healing. She is a writer, intuitive astrologer, energy and soul guide, and host of Girl and her moon, the podcast. She is inspired, every day, to be the mirror for you to see all that you really are, you in all your infinite abilities, in full expansion, in infinite opportunities and love.